Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a meeting at which representatives from the Shoah Foundation and three research universities would identify the technical requirements for making Shoah’s online video oral history database accessible at the three institutions

Digital Access

to support a pilot project that would explore the scholarly uses of a large and important digital video archive in the research and instructional programs of three research universities

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Visual History:  The Past in Images"

Sawyer Seminar - "Visual History: The Past in Images"

support of library acquisition program in connection with establishment of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts

for teacher-pupil audio-visual education program

Audio-Visual Education Program

to sustain the program of a scholarly publications at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at a time when the endowment principal has fallen below its historic dollar value

Scholarly Publications - Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts

toward costs of a public television series on the American theater

American Theater Series

to support publication costs, contributor fees, the hiring of a project manager, and the recruitment of new academic partners

An Unfinished Atlas

in support of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

support of audio-visual program in connection with Museum's exhibition on African Sculpture

Audio-Visual Orientation Program - "African Sculpture"

for permanent endowment in support of core functions of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

toward costs of an Advisory Committee for the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

to support the development of an undergraduate program in visual culture with The Huntington Library

What the Eye Beholds: The Caltech-Huntington Library Joint Program in Visual Culture

to support the practice, development, and presentation of interdisciplinary work

Collaborative Intersections in the Visual Initiative

to support interdisciplinary artist residencies at the University of California at Los Angeles

Collaborative Intersections in  the Visual Initiative

to support organizational capacity at the Mexican American History of Civil Rights Institute, an archivist, and the development of an exhibition master plan

National Institute of Mexican American History of Civil Rights

to support expansion and diversification of four initiatives dedicated to the role of poetry in communities

The Poetry Foundation

to support short-term research fellowships in the history of science

History of Science Fellowships 

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Race and Visual Culture in the Americas 20th to 21st Centuries"

Sawyer Seminar -  Race and Visual Culture in the Americas 20th-21st Centuries

endowment for its Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts to be designated the Paul Mellon Fund

Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts - Paul Mellon Fund

to support the development of the Architecture Visual Resource Network, an online visual database of architecture from around the world

Architecture Visual Resource Network

for use by its Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts to support predoctoral fellows in non-Western art and curatorial research-sabbaticals

Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts - Predoctoral Fellows

for use by the University of Chicago Press to continue development of the Chicago Visual Library

Chicago Visual Library

for support of "The Journal of Interdisciplinary History"

The Journal of Interdisciplinary History

to support the Theory of the Foundation Learning Collaborative

Theory of the Foundation

to support short-term travel fellowships at the History of Science Collections

History of Science Collections Fellowships

to support planning for the development of a national Visual Culture Council

Planning Visual Culture Research

to support the completion of a history of the National Academy of Sciences

A History of the National Academy of Sciences

to support and strengthen the University of Pittsburgh's Visual Cultural "Constellation" effort for university-wide curriculum reform in the humanities on both the graduate and undergraduate levels

Visual Culture Constellations Initiative

to support the development of an institutional history of the University

Institutional History

to support a national, interinstitutional alliance to develop new models of multimedia access and publication in the field of visual studies

Alliance for Networking Visual Studies 

History Workshop

to support a data-gathering initiative that will gauge the health of architectural, urban, and landscape history as fields of study, and as degree programs and/or curricula across the higher education landscape

Study on the State of the Field of Architectural History 

Theory of the Foundation Learning Collaborative

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled "Visual Exegesis: Images as Instruments of Scriptural Interpretation and Hermeneutics"

Sawyer Seminars - Comparative Study of Cultures: Visual Exegesis

to support the Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts

Center for Empathy and Visual Arts

to support the History Workshop to undertake research and a graduate development program

in support of its Center for the History of the American Indian

Center for the History of the American Indian

matching grant toward editorial costs of The Documentary History of the Supreme Court,1789-1800

Documentary History of the Supreme Court

to support an initiative that studies the ways Americans understand history, and to generate successful communication strategies about the importance of history for public audiences

Framing History with the American Public

to support the technical assessment of a platform for multimedia research and publication in the field of visual studies and planning for its further development

Alliance for Networking Visual Culture - Phase II

to complete its documentation activities on the contemporary history of the biomolecular sciences

Contemporary History - Biomolecular Sciences

to support a book documenting and celebrating the 25-year history of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

25th Anniversary History Book

to support the development of a history program for all undergraduate students

History Across the University

to support upgrade of the user interface of the Witt Computer Index, which provides scholarly access to a subset of art objects represented in the photo archive held by the Witt Library of the Courtauld Institute of Art

Courtauld Institute of Art

to support the establishment of the Women's History Center

Center for the Study of Women's History

to support the creation of a new Visual Studies Program

Visual Studies Program

to support the further development of a platform for multimedia research and publication in the field of visual studies and creation of an institute for multimedia publishing

Alliance for Networking Visual Culture - Phase III: Implementation

to support the establishment of a chaired professorship in the History of Art, Science, and Folk Practice

Chair in the History of Art, Science, and Folk Practice

Artists as Catalysts

Artists as Catalysts Navigation Image

Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 